Page lxxviii - Fife. men hurt and slaine. Bot this William Meldrum of Bines was evill martyred, for his hochis war cutted, and the knoppis of his elbowis war strikin aff, and was strikin throw the bodie, so thair was no signe of lyff in him, Yitt be the mightie power of God, he eschaped the death, and leived fyftie yeires thairefter.

Page lxxii - ... the whyte of my eyes, so that anie bodie wold haue trowed that I was blind, I vsing often to play this pavie, the nunnes, the Sisteris of the Sheines (so they were commonlie called,) did sometymes see me do it, and laucht at me.

Page lix - England, to visit this ancient kingdom of Scotland, in anno 1617, he went in person to see it, and ordered that it should be built with stones from the bottom to the top, and that a door and a pair of stairs should be made for it. that men might have the more easie access unto its bottom, for getting of the oyl. This Royal command being obeyed, the well was adorned and preserved, until the year 1650, when that execrable regicide and usurper, Oliver Cromwell, with his rebellious and sacrilegious accomplices,...

Page xxi - Set a watch, О Lord, before my mouth : and keep the door of my lips. 4 О let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing : let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them. 5 Let the righteous rather smite me friendly : and reprove me.

Page xl - Bannatine, abroad And at home who served God. Though no children he possest, Yet the Lord with means him blest. He on them did well dispose, Long ere death his eyes did close. For, the poor his helping hand, And his friends his...